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...rooms or over this kind of food, which are very powerful media,” she said over a table of desserts from Finale’s. “But the idea of finding an academic home for these kinds of conversations is important.” Both Carpio and Desai said that an ethnic studies curriculum would have to be interdisciplinary. “I think that’s part of the richness of what ethnic studies could bring,” said Carpio. “I think it would be helpful to see what...
Similarly, Glenda R. Carpio, associate professor of African and African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language, notes the occupational advantages of having her beagle, Placido, around at her office in the Af-Am Studies Department. “As a writer, I appreciate having someone sit at my feet, but then insist on taking long walks,” she says, adding that she always comes back to her work refreshed and refocused...
...Carpio too is dazzled by how her pet brings out the human side of frenetic Harvard. “He has these standoffs with squirrels in Harvard Yard, and what’s most sweet is how many people stop and watch...
...search of the '60s Zeitgeist: the Liverpudlian Jude (Jim Sturgess), his American girlfriend Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), Lucy's rebellious brother Max (Joe Anderson), the Janis Joplin-like Sadie (Dana Fuchs), the Jimi Hendrix-ish JoJo (Martin Luther McCoy) and the Asian, vaguely Yokonian, finally lesbian Prudence (T.V. Carpio). They come together in New York City and manage to get involved in or affected by most of the decade's Big Movements: student unrest, race riots, Vietnam War resistance, political assassinations, the Black Panthers, bisexual experimentation, psychedelic drugs. Except for Laugh-In and the Mets' World Series victory...
Alonso, who calls the lack of government action a "disgrace," shares the despair of many farmers in Carpio. As she and her husband, along with four hired workers, toss aside the ruined potatoes they've just unearthed, she frets about the future. "The voles have taken our winter bread," she says. "What are we going...